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Well another trip is in the books. 2017 marked our eighth cross country RV trip. In that time we have logged countless miles covering 46 states and about 24 National Parks. I started this blog as a way to record these memories for the future. I hope someday my kids can look back at this […]

Like Letchworth, we had heard a lot about this park over the years. Being about an hour from the city I had my reservations. When we arrived, we scored a site about 40 feet from North Lake . The park was beautifully manicured and everyone was very friendly. The lake and the surrounding views were […]

After leaving Maine, we had two days to kill on our way to Saratoga Springs to meet up with my cousin Karla and our Gruncle Bill who were also camping. Keep in mind that this was the start of the Fourth of July holiday and we had no reservations anywhere. There were several first come […]

In the spirit on honesty, the only reason that we crossed over into Maine was to earn ourselves a state sticker. We did cross over for dinner the night before, but unless you are camping in a state, you cannot truly earn a sticker. As has been the case thus far, the rain followed us […]

So we have been on the road for about two weeks now. We are big fans of camping out west. The North East is new to us. We are having a great time, but there are differences. One on them is the weather. The West is a lot drier. Here we are dealing with scattered […]

On our way to Maine, we stopped in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We thought that perhaps that we would do a the cog railway up to the top of Mt. Washington, but it was silly expensive at $79 per person. We have been to the top of bigger mountains and we have done […]

After a 6 hour drive and an hour delay at the border, we just wanted to get off the road. We found a campground right over the border called Campbell Bay Campground situated on Lake Champlain in the town of Swanton Vermont. This is a lesson on not judging a book by it’s cover. This […]

We really had no idea what to expect from this place. I usually do my homework about all of our stops, but life has been busy the last few months and time was tight. This park is kind of in the middle of nowhere straddling Ontario and Montreal. Our first impression was that this place […]

After leaving Letchworth we stopped at Niagara Falls for the afternoon. Kristi and I had been here close to 25 years ago. We came on a whim in the middle of winter only to find the falls almost completely frozen. This time it was different. Both the Canadian and American falls were flowing millions of […]

I am going to piss off a lot of people with this entry. So I apologize in advance. Our first stop on our 2017 RV adventure begins at Letchworth State Park in New York. For the past 20 years I have heard neighbors and friends tell us about this park. It is nick named […]

For many summers, my family and I would pack up the RV and head west from our home on Long Island for a three week cross country adventure. The problem was that so much of our time was being eaten up by the huge mileage involved in the roundtrip. On one fateful trip home, it […]

We are home and have wrapped up our 2016 RV trip. We covered about 6000 miles in about 23 days. This is our seventh year of doing trips like this. Hunter was 12 years old when we began this adventure and he is now 18. I fear that this may be the last big trip […]

The Wisconsin Dells are a bit touristy, but also worthy of a 2 day stop if you are in this area. There is enough to do to keep everybody happy. On this trip, we only had one day. We had been here before but have never made our way out on to the water which […]

Other than satisfying my wanderlust, camping affords me the time to write. This blog is more cathartic then you can imagine. I love writing, but I am a single minded person. This means that when I am home I cannot take an hour each night and write. I cannot retreat to my office and write. […]

We are now doing long days on the road on our route home. These are not the best days of a cross country trip. Covering 400 – 600 miles a day kinda sucks in and of itself, but there are other issues. A large RV towing another car can be a handful. It requires a […]

We are really moving now. I don’t like being a stop and go tourist, but we are running out of time and have a lot of miles to cover. This is however not going to stop us from seeing some cool things along the way. On other trips we have passed by Devil’s Tower, but […]

Colby is a unique creature. He is now 14 years old and has always been the guy to turn to for a smile or a laugh. His life is blessed and it shows. We call him Mr Happy for a reason. Colby seems never to let anything get in the way of his own personal […]

If you have been reading this blog for a while, you already know that I build into our plans lot’s of flexible time that I call “fluff time” . Our original route was this. We flew into San Diego (where Roxie has resided for the past year) and almost immediately headed to Northern California, Oregon […]

It has been our experience that some of the best spots to camp in the United States are some of the least known areas. , Great Basin National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Capital Reef National Park are some examples. Add to that list North Cascades National Park. This place is simply awesome. […]

People often ask, how we are able to do this without killing each other. I don’t have a very good answer to that. The truth is however that we get on each other nerves much more in a 2300 square foot house than we do in our 34” motor home. Writing helps me clarify my […]

I am not going to say that Olympic National Park is not a beautiful place because it is. So at the risk of sounding like a travel snob, I will say this….. We have seen better. Olympic is a very diverse place mostly as a result of its size. This is a very big park. […]